Outside the Beltway

The Occupy Wall Street protests are, ironically, hurting small business owners and others in the 99 percent.

Pete Gent, the former Dallas Cowboy and Michigan State player best known as the author of “North Dallas Forty,” has died at 69 from pulmonary illness.

Ensuring the integrity of the voting process is a worthy goal, not evidence of discrimination.

Former Oregon governor and long-time US Senator Mark Hatfield has died.

Congress failing to raise the debt ceiling would involve abrogating an enormous amount of power to the Executive.

Do ideologically radical professors impose their biases on their students?

We need to stop talking as if the Medicare debate is a question of the Ryan Plan v. the Status Quo.

Across the country, Republicans are pushing laws that will make voting harder.

It’s just one Congressional District out of 435, but that won’t stop everyone from trying to turn the results in NY-26 into a national referendum on Medicare reform.

Whenever I despair at the current state of the Republican Party, I remind myself that things aren’t much better across the aisle.

Two new polls reflect the extent to which public attitudes on same-sex marriage have changed dramatically over the past twenty years, and it’s only a matter of time before that’s reflected in the law.

The most likely cuts in federal spending are likely to actually increase the deficit over time.

Yet another study finds conservatives wildly underrepresented in higher education.

If Mubarak is driven from power, will that make Egypt a case of “revolution”?

European subsidies have given Airbus a competitive advantage over America’s Boeing in commercial aircraft salesboein. The reverse is true on military aircraft.

There’s a lesson to be drawn from the tragedy in Arizona, but it isn’t the one the media is talking about.

What the Haley Barbour situation illustrates is that we, as a country, have not fully accepted or dealt with our own past.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who may end up running for President in 2012, has reopened wounds that finally seemed like they were closed.

California’s Proposition 8 faced another legal test in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, and the day didn’t seem to go well for opponents of same-sex marriage.

Is the current media environment a problem for proper political discourse?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel declare multiculturalism in Germany to be a “failure.” Proof that anti-immigration activists in the United States are correct, right?

Western athletes who’ve complained about the conditions at the Commonwealth Games are coming in for a firestorm of criticism.

Sharron Angle’s views about the role of religion in politics are disturbingly similar to those of people who believe that the Bible itself should be the law of the land.

Conservatives aren’t as united over the “outrage” of the New Black Panther Case as you might think.

The Taliban have a new secret weapon: Monkey terrorist soldiers.

Thanks to JaMarcus Russell, I have learned a new term.

The public is growing tired of America’s Longest War.

San Francisco’s gay pride parade celebrates its 40th anniversary with Nancy Pelosi, the Backstreet Boys, and some dudes riding bike’s nekkid.

The UNODC has released the latest World Drug Report. Shockingly, there are a lot of drugs out there and a lot of money to made trafficking in them.